[OSM-talk] urban surveying speed - can it be estimated as population per hour?

[80n]

On 6/9/07, A Morris <aledmorris2 at gmail.com> wrote:
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> > > (i) the rate of road addition will go pretty linearly up to 100%
> > completion of road network and then stop (presumably, then, with ongoing
> > addition of more detailed attributes and points of interest); or
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> > > (ii) we'll start hitting a level of completeness where it's difficult
> > to discern what's completed and what's not, and the last mile(s) will be by
> > far the hardest?  at what % completeness would we start seeing that?
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> Surely it would not be copyright infringement to, say, take an OS map and
> cross off the streets that had been mapped on OSM, thus making it easy to
> see what was not completed (at least up to OS standard)?
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> Would that be any different from doing the same thing electronically, say
> with a google maps mashup?


Possibly not, but we don't have the funds to fight a legal defence if the OS
or Teleatlas or whoever alledged that it was.  Our recourse (and cheapest
option) would be to remove the suspect data.

Given the rate of progress and the thoroughness that enthusiastic volunteers
have, it would be unwise to use dubious methods, that would put the whole
project at risk, when there is every sign that we will get there soon enough
anyway.

80n


Aled.
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